He's probably right. So what? Wisconsin is economically depressed, they want change and they are not enthused. Makes sense because no matter who they vote for it will make no difference. And they know it. It will take a whole heck of a lot more than any politician can do at this point to get the economy going.

The Republicans have no better plans. But voters go back and forth between parties every couple of years thinking they do.

To be fair to the Vice-President... I think his (poorly worded) point was that he had just made a comment he expected to fire up his supporters, and they responded with a dull silence. So he turned that into a joke (a poor one), and they responded to that.

His base is dejected. Trying to provoke them from "dejected" to "motivated" is all he can try at this point.

Biden thinks the audience is stupid enough to think that describing the problem has anything to do with solving the problem. China suddenly turned capitalistic and is booming with our jobs and our tecnologies...so Obama and biden tell us to end capitalism here and become socialist serfs. That is no solution at all. Biden is lucky that Dems are not yet Tea Party people and therefore did not shout him down. But that day is coming in the privacy of voting booths.

I didn't know there'd be a Biden thread or I'd have saved this comment from the last one:

Well, VP Biden, that soon-to-be deciding vote, closed down traffic to my business this morning and afternoon as he made his way across Madison to stump at a fundraiser. Hot on the heels of his boss' visit last week. Please guys, your administration's policies have done enough damage, there's no need to personally come inflict any more...

How has Biden managed to stay employed for 38 years straight? He strikes me as the quintessential corporate VP with a corner office with no apparent duties or responsibilities but he never gets the axe no matter how far the company's financial condition sinks.

Added: You see this all the time in stand-up comedy when there is an un-funny political joke. Here there is the 4th reason, which is to signal that they agree with the sentiment and are presumably okay with a comic wasting their time being un-funny.

Whatever may be going on inside them midwesterners are outwardly phlegmatic, noticeably so in comparison to northeasterners. Not laidback bordering on spacey that you get with a lot of Californians. Phlegmatic.

Wisconsin is acutually picking some jobs, or will be in the future. Some large Illinois companies are relocating or expanding their operations there. Illinois, under the disasters known as Pat Quinn and the Democrat Party hve made it impossible for businesses to operate at a profit.

It's reported the audience laughed at the comment. Biden probably meant, jokingly, that the audience was dull, as in boring, but the audience was actually dull, as in not to smart. Neither was Biden for making a comment so easily taken as an insult. But he is an expert at that.

The polydent denture wearing VP let his teeth a little loose today. You can actually hear them go clickity-click. These leftards are ignorant fools. We all know why jobs have left many states and have gone overseas and yet these idiots continue to peddle their dead marxist theologies.